本书采用“主题探究”，学习者进行“自主学习”的形式，共分10个单元，每个单元包括导读、相关问题、两篇文章选读，选读后设置Notes、Backgroundinformation、Exercises及拓展阅读等版块。本书所选主题涉及政治、体育、医学、文化等，供非英语专业学生使用。

Unit 1 Worldwide Hot Issues
Text A N. Korea Hails U.S.Concessions: Trump exults, but real progress is uncertain
Text B French Team Celebrate World Cup Win with Paris Victory Parade
Journalistic English Tips: The Lexical Features of News Headline
Unit 2 Politics
Text A Merkel Cautious in Replying to U.S.Attacks on Trade and Defense
Text B Trump Wants "Space Force" by 2020
Journalistic English Tips: The Grammatical Features of News Headline
Unit 3 Violence and Terrorism
Text A Anwar Sadat Assassinated at Cairo Military Review
Text B Polish President Dies in Jet Crash in Russia
Journalistic English Tips: 5Ws and 1H in the Leads of News
Unit 4 Disasters
Text A 105 Killed in China Mine Explosion
Text B 15 Killed by Rebel Bomb in Kashmir
Journalistic English Tips: Discourse Analysis of English News
Unit 5 Climate and Environment
Text A Pollution is Slowing the Melting of Arctic Sea Ice, for Now
Text B Air Pollution Particles Found in Mother's Placentas
Journalistic English Tips: The Syntactic Features of News
Unit 6 Sports
Text A World Cup Final: France Crowned World Champion after 4-2 Win over Croatia
Text B The Heavy Toll of Stephen Curry's Clunker
Journalistic English Tips= The Lexical Features of News
Unit 7 People in News
Text A The Land of Love
Text B Emotionally Drained King Urges Public to End Violence
Journalistic English Tips. Feature Story
Unit 8 Medical Care
Text A Cancer Treatment Hype Gives False Hope: Families hear good news that doctors have disease in retreat--then reality strikes back hard
Text B Autism--Why it's not "Rain Woman"
Journalistic English Tips: Hard News and Soft News
Unit 9 An Unpresidented President
Text A People Actually Laughed at a President's: At U. N. speech, Trump suffers the fate he always feared
Text B President Trump Returns to the U. N. --With a mountain of evidence for "Peace Through Strength" ~
Journalistic English Tips: The Sources of News & Fake News
Unit 10 Economic Issues
Text A Why Trade Wars Can be Perilous: 5 Essential Reads
Text B U.N. Offi: Belt and Road Shapes Market
Journalistic English Tips: The Ideology in News Report
Unit 11 Science and Technology
Text A Vehicle Headlights are Stuck in Tech's Dark Ages: Lack of advances in illumination heightens road risks
Text B No Where to Hide: Fa Recognition
Journalistic English Tips: The Pulitzer Prizes
Unit 12 A Kaleidoscope of Cultures
Text A Meet Bon and Pon: The Japanese retirees making coordinated outfits cool
Text B The Mediterranean Diet is in Retreat Even in Italy. What Now for the Foodies' Ideal?
Journalistic English Tips: We Media